Posted on 06/16/2022 6:05:19 AM PDT by Perseverando
Apparently not content with its efforts so far to make gun ownership more difficult and expensive for America’s 100 million firearm owners, a source tells TTAG that the Biden administration is taking steps to constrict the availability of .223/5.56 ammunition available to the average shooter.
A person with knowledge of the situation tells us that, more than just “considering” the move, Winchester, which operates the US Army’s Lake City ammunition plant, has been informed that it may no longer sell M855 and SS109 ammunition produced in excess of the military’s needs on the civilian market.
How would that affect the civilian supply of .223 and 5.56 ammunition? We understand that as much as 30% of the commercial market’s sales volume of .223/5.56 is produced by Lake City.
The motive here is obvious. The Biden administration is attempting to further spike the price of ammunition, squeezing the owners of America’s favorite rifles…the scary black ones that the president assures us are only good for killing people and taking down Kevlar vest-wearing deer.
Let’s face it. Even the hapless Biden administration must realize that they don’t have any realistic prospect of getting another “assault weapons” ban through the Senate. Instead, they’re doing the next best thing. They want to make shooting most AR-15 rifles as expensive as possible for Americans who own between 20 and 25 million AR platform guns.
We’ve reached out to Winchester for a statement on the Biden administration’s move, but haven’t received a response yet. We’ll updated this post when we do.
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Another whiff of fascism in the air.
Here we go.
And they can single out Lake City why?
Because they are government contractors?
If there are other manufacturers, they will just pick up the slack.
Fear the government that fears your gun.
The coup continues.
The filthy sonofabitch.
There are many ways to infringe. All are wrong.
Step 1: Destroy middle class
Step 2: Disarm law abiding citizens
Step 3: Unveil new dictatorial government
Guns are useless without ammo.
Yeah, because they can.
I think everyone is running at full capacity, now.
The government is getting sticker shock on the price of the new ammo since there's no civilian market to offset it and none of our allies field that weapon.
The squinty-eyed, pig-face, demon SOB is an outright, total insult to the flag pin it wears and is an outright traitor to the USA and her People. They’re communists that have done NOTHING for America except run her straight into the ground as hard as they can and everywhere they can.
These so-called communist “policymakers” need to be arrested, tried, sentenced and executed.
And just how do the Federales get to tell Winchester what legal products may or may not sell on the open market?
POTATUS doesn’t understand the American free market well enough to know how this will impact Lake City.
Here we go again.
Obama did the same thing.
Anyone still wondering who is in charge?
The USA is a fascist banana republic.
The strongest and best ever devised by man!
Where does this “authority” come from?
Winchester should tell Biden to go pee up a rope.
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Not so easy … ramping up is expensive and rarely done because historically the shortage becomes a glut eventually, and makers are then stuck with expensive unused equipment.
Also during the last while the components were in shortage too.
Fear the government that has NO fear of you.
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